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Friday SNPpets

Everybody was full of vim and vigor this week, and a lot of great things were going around. Oddest thing was “fitbit cages for laboratory mice”. But I can see the value. Most heated post will probably be “Myths of Bioinformatics Software.” Other things included recommended data repositories from @PLOS journals, sequencing kids’ genomes, non-coding variants affecting drug activity, a new LD tool, DNA contamination issues, cancer data challenge, microbial databases (including IMG that we love), Galaxy talks, and more.

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…